ultrashort SF: a brief explanation of everything

Most civilizations eventually become obsessed by a single equation. It seems to call out to them, representing everything they always felt and sensed.
Then they become that equation.
They turn into something like a giant space crystal, expanding its pattern forever. Endlessly elaborating, but unchanged at its core.
That will happen to us.

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Maximatter is the most organized state of space-time.
When created at any point of the universe, it forms a sphere that expands at the speed of light.
Inevitably, this organizing process creates more chaos elsewhere. That excess chaos is dumped into "garbage-space".
However, garbage space still contains all the information from the original universe that birthed it. On rare occasions, complex patterns can still form and evolve in there, though the process is stilted and highly unstable.
That is us now.